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portada Valerie and her Week of Wonders
Type
Physical Book
Author
Translated by
Illustrated by
Publisher
Year
2005
Language
English
Pages
226
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
19.8x13.7x1.4 cm
Weight
0.29 kg.
ISBN
808626419X
ISBN13
9788086264196
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Valerie and her Week of Wonders

Vitezslav Nezval (Author) · David Short (Translated by) · Kamil Lhota¡k (Illustrated by) · Twisted Spoon Press · Paperback

Valerie and her Week of Wonders - Nezval, Vitezslav ; Lhota¡k, Kamil ; Short, David

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Synopsis "Valerie and her Week of Wonders "

Written in 1935 at the height of Czech Surrealism but not published until 1945, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a bizarre erotic fantasy of a young girl's maturation into womanhood on the night of her first menstruation. Referencing Matthew Lewis's The Monk, Marquis de Sade's Justine, K. H. Macha's May, F. W. Murnau's film Nosferatu, Nezval employs the language of the pulp serial novel to fashion a lyrical, menacing dream of sexual awakening involving a vampire with an insatiable appetite for chicken blood, changelings, lecherous priests, a malicious grandmother desiring her lost youth. In his Foreword Nezval states: "I wrote this novel out of a love of the mystique in those ancient tales, superstitions and romances, printed in Gothic script, which used to flit before my eyes and declined to convey to me their content." Part fairy tale, part Gothic horror, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a meditation on youth and age, sexuality and death, an androgynous merging of brother with sister, an exploration of the grotesque with the shifting registers of language, mood, and genre that were a hallmark of the Czech avant-garde. The 1970 film version is considered one of the outstanding achievements of Czech new-wave cinema. This edition includes Kamil Lhota k's original illustrations.

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Anonymous User Thursday, October 15, 2026

La atención al detalle que tiene esta editorial en fantástica, se nota que sus libros son diseñados con mucho cuidado y cariño. Las ilustraciones / collages que acompañan al texto son muy bellas.

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